Automatic pistol.



R. WILES. AUTOMATIC PISTOL. APPLICATION FILED mm: 9, 1909.

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v auseful and is fully describedaml explained in the specification and shown in the accompany .ing drawing, in which:

.in the position which it occupies after the cocking of the hammer and before the trig- ;2 5 .ger is released; Fig. 5 is a perspective view be. adapted forabove-named ATENT OFFICE.

trssELL wILEs, 0F cmcneo, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO cHAELEs PH. CLEMENT, 0E LIEGE, BELGIUM.

AUTOMATIC PISTOL;

e it known that I, RUsseLL Wines; a citiof the United States, residing at Ohi cago,fiin the county ofjCook and State of have invented a new and useful Im- .provement in Automatic Pistols, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and improvements in automatic pistols,

Figure l is a longitudinal section through my improved weapon, the parts bemg shown which they occupy when ready for firing; Fig. 2,

cupies at the instant of firing; Fig. 4 repre- .-sents the same mechanlsm in the position automatic reof the hammer Flg. 6 is a similar view of the scar, and Flg. '7 is a similar view of the 'trl ger.

eferring tothe drawings; A is a frame .301 having a handle or stock-portion made hollow 1n form and adapted to receive the magazine M111 the usual way and also a horizontal or barrel-portion whlch carries .a barrel B rifled in the usual manner, as illustrated.

Above the barrel and guided by the frame is a movable breech-block 0 having. a firingpin 0 normally spring-pressed forward by a spring 0 mounte in a suitable chamber pro vided to receive the same in the frame. This 40 portion of the mechanism was well known prior to the date of my invention and forms no part of what 'I claim as new. For th1s reason I have not seen fit to illustrate it in. general way, those skilled. in the art being informed as to the'various more than a very will preferably details of construction which and described parts.

Pivotally firing-pin in" the breech-block C; said spring Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 9, 1909.

illustrates the fir'-' lug-mechanism at an intermediate point hetween the pulling of the trigger and the firing of the weapon; Fig. 3 represents the- 20I same mechanism in the position which it octrigger will move and oscillate together.

mounted in a chamber in the' frame is a hammer D adapted to strike the I Patented Nov. 30, 1909. Serial No. 501,160.

ivot Fig. 2, it wil vlease the hammer and permit the same tO fall and strike the firing-pin in the usual way. lnfront of the stock or handle-portion' of the frame, there is formed in the material of the frame a trigger-guard which is of usual form. The frame is slotted so that the interior of with the space within the trigger-guard in the manner illustrated.

F is the front part of the trigger, the same being longitudinally movable with a sliding motion in the trigger-guard and also being capable of a limited rocking or oscillatory motion in all directions. to the rear part of the trigger is a flat trigger-extension F the form of which is best illustrated in the perspective of Fig. 7. The two portions of the trigger are ri idly secured together by means of a screw (dotted lines Fig.1) so that the two portions of the the rear end of the trigger extension and position as illustrated in Figs. 1 and.

v Rigidly attached the frame communicates near the lower part thereof is a shoulder f? in position to engage with the lower end of the sear E in the manner illustrated iirFig. 1. Below this shoulder, on the trigger,-is a beveled surface f which is adapted to 'be engaged by a spring I the action of which is to force the rear end of the trigger upward. At the up er corner of the trigger-extension is a latera ly-projecting pin f which extends mtothe ath of a cam-projection D on the hammer heretofore described. v

The manner of operation of the wea on is as followsiStartin with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 1, it will be seen that theweapon is ready to be fired; that is to ,say, the hammer is cocked and heldin its 4 cocked position by the sear,the trigger-extension is in shoulder f in'engagement with the s'ear,-and all parts are so arranged that its upper position with itsby pressing back the trigger the sear will be moved .to'releasethe hammer.

Upon the pulling of the Eli trigger, the parts assume the position shown in Fig. 2, that is the trigger moves back, the upper end of the sear moves forward, and the hammer begins to move down, this figure illustrating the hammer after it has moved through a part of its downward course. At the end of the movement of the hammer, the parts take the position shown in Fig. 3, the (am D on the hammer striking the projec; tion f at the rear of the trigger-extension and moving the same down so as to release the sear. The sear thereupon swings into position to engage the hammer, when the hammer is retracted. When the hammer finishes its downward movement, it of course engages the firing-pin and explodes the cartridge. The reeoil of the charge exerted against the shell drives back the breech-block in the usual Way, ejecting the empty shell and drawing in a fresh shell from the magar zine. The backward movement of the breech-block causes the rocking of the harm mer hack to its original position where it takes the position shown in Fig. 4-. At this time the sear is free from engagement: with the trigger b reason of the triggenexten sion being still in its lower position, and en ge es the hammer to lock it, in cocking position. The trigger-extension is held in this position, bein prevented from rising, by engagement of idle upper iortion of the angular shoulder f with the lower end of the sear, all as illustrated in Fig. 4. When the pres sure of the finger is removed from the trigger it will return to its original position as illustrated in Fig. 1 and the spring G will force the rear end of the trigger up into position to again engage the sear for a subsequent operation.

The device above described is advantm geous in that it is aartieularly simple and convenient, the number of moving parts being reduced in number, the usual pivot being dispensed with.

name-a What I claim new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is" l. The combination, in an automatic: pistol having a magazine in the handle, a sear behind the ma azine, and firing mechanism in position to he engaged by the sear, of a trigger having a finger piece in front of the magazine and an operating member extending beside the magazine into position to en- 'age the sear, said trigger being capable of bodily longitudinal movement and a limited oscillatorymovement, and means for bodily oscillating the trigger after its longitudinal movement.

The rombination, in an autonnitie pistol having a magazine in the handle, of a scar behind the magazine and firinp mechanism arranged to be engaged by the soar and release. a trigger having a finger-piece in front of the magazine and an operating member extemling; to one side of the magazine, the trigger being arranged to slide bodily longl'itmlinally oi the weapon and in such movement to move the sear to release the firing-meehanism, and means for bodily oscillating the trigger to release the sear after such longitudinal movement.

The combination, in an automatic pistol having a magazine in the handle, of a soar and hammer to the rear of the magazine, and a trigger havin a fingenpieee in firont of the magazine am: an operating portion extending beside the magazine, said trigger having a portion to enfgage the sear to release the same from the ammer, and the hammer and trigger having eoiiperatlng portions whereby when the hammer deseends, the trigger will be bodily oscillated to release it from the sear.

RUSSELL WTLES.

In presence of- RALPH Sonanrnn, Jonn WILSON. 

